David Dago N’Da, BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc (University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast), MSc, PhD (University of the Witwatersrand) is doctor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the NWU.  He is a medicinal chemist who specialises in the chemistry of antimalarial drugs, whilst his research focuses on the rational design and synthesis of new compounds with potential antimalarial activity.  He has supervised a large number of post-graduate students and has several PhD and MSc students currently under his supervision.  He is the author/co-author of a number of patent and well over 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals.